Eric Pooley was appointed Editor of TIME EMEA in July 2002, effective autumn 2002. Based at TIME's International headquarters in London, Pooley manages the magazine's editorial staff and a team of correspondents in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Prior to assuming the editorship of TIME, Pooley was Nation Editor for TIME in the U.S., since 2001. He was responsible for editing the magazine's award-winning coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the war in Afghanistan, and he oversaw TIME's political, military and national-affairs coverage. He reported and wrote the profile of TIME's 2001 Person of the Year, Rudolph Giuliani.

Between 1998 and 2000, Pooley was TIME's Chief Political Correspondent, writing about all aspects of American politics, including the 2000 presidential campaign, key Congressional races, and an array of national issues, including foreign policy, education, poverty, and campaign-finance reform.

In 1998, Pooley was acting Nation Editor and oversaw coverage of President Clinton's impeachment trial. He co-wrote TIME's 1998 Men of Year profile of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and Bill Clinton, which won TIME Inc's Henry R. Luce Award for Best Story of 1998. In 1996, as TIME's White House Correspondent, Pooley covered President Clinton's re-election campaign; his work on the White House beat was recognized with the 1996 Gerald R. Ford Prize for Excellence in Reporting.

Pooley joined TIME in July 1995 following a successful career at New York magazine where, having joined as a researcher in 1983, he became Senior Editor in 1989, before becoming a political writer and columnist. Pooley's March 1996 TIME cover story investigating shocking lapses in how the federal government monitors the safety of nuclear power plants was a finalist for the 1996 National Magazine award in the category of Public Interest Reporting. Pooley has received many journalism awards for his work, including a 1991 award from the Society for Professional Journalists for his New York magazine cover story, "Kids with Guns". Six of his articles have been optioned for television programmes or feature films. He has also appeared on such television programmes as Charlie Rose, Nightline, Dateline NBC, NBC Nightly News, and Larry King Live.

Pooley, who was born in The Middle East and raised in Maryland, England, and West Germany, graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1981 and began his journalism career in East Germany as a freelancer working for various American newspapers and magazines until 1982. He is married to Pamela and has two daughters.